Senior Constructability Manager - Rail Programs

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 391,000 - 558,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is seeking a Senior Constructability Manager for Rail Programs to govern constructability reviews across stations, corridors, tunnels, and trackwork. The role emphasizes process leadership, ensuring qualified specialists participate at the right stages and that decisions are traceable and integrated into design and delivery packages.

The ideal candidate will bring 15+ years on major infrastructure projects, deep railway/transit experience, and strong governance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of experience on major infrastructure or construction projects.
• At least ten years of experience within railway, metro, light rail, or transit developments.
• PMP, PRINCE2, chartered status, or an equivalent professional qualification is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the rail-program constructability management plan.
• Define workflows, review gates, approval stages, responsibilities, and closure requirements.
• Establish constructability committees, review panels, and escalation routes.
• Align constructability governance with wider project-management and assurance arrangements.
• Embed formal checkpoints within design and construction programs.
• Coordinate review milestones with design managers, planners, and package teams.

Skills

Constructability process management

Rail-program governance

Constructability management plans

Review-gate development

Multicontract coordination

Station constructability

Tunnel and viaduct interfaces

Trackwork coordination

Depot and rail-systems reviews

Design-maturity assessment

Constructability workshops

Action and decision tracking

Issue-register management

Master-schedule integration

Process-risk management

Recovery and resequencing

Performance metrics

Safety-in-design alignment

Value engineering coordination

Change-control integration

Common data environments

BIM coordination

4D planning

5D coordination

Issue-tracking systems

Microsoft Project

Primavera

Management dashboards

Client presentations

Lessons-learned management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Project

Primavera

Job description

Role: Senior Constructability Manager - Rail Programs

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad

Function: Project Management

Experience: Minimum 15 years

Job Type: Full-time

Parsons is hiring a Senior Constructability Manager - Rail Programs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a major program within the Transportation-Trucking-Railroad industry. This client-facing role will establish and govern the constructability process across stations, corridors, viaducts, tunnels, trackwork, depots, systems, and complex project interfaces. The position focuses on process leadership rather than detailed technical design. The manager will ensure that qualified specialists participate at the correct stages, reviews follow a structured workflow, decisions remain traceable, and approved outcomes are incorporated into design and delivery packages.

Job Details

Country: Saudi Arabia

City: Riyadh

Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad

Function: Project Management

Salary: 35000-50000 SAR per month. Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in Riyadh; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Gender: Any

Candidate Nationality: Any

Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

Rail developments involve numerous contracts, technical disciplines, operational requirements, and physical interfaces. Constructability reviews help ensure that designs can be built safely, efficiently, and in a practical sequence, but their value depends on timely participation, clear decisions, and disciplined follow-up. The Senior Constructability Manager will create the governance connecting expert review with design progression and construction planning. A consistent process will reduce late design changes, improve package coordination, identify delivery constraints early, and limit avoidable rework.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the rail-program constructability management plan.
• Define workflows, review gates, approval stages, responsibilities, and closure requirements.
• Establish constructability committees, review panels, and escalation routes.
• Align constructability governance with wider project-management and assurance arrangements.
• Embed formal checkpoints within design and construction programs.
• Coordinate review milestones with design managers, planners, and package teams.
• Define required inputs, participants, records, and acceptance criteria for each review.
• Plan constructability activities according to design maturity and delivery priorities.
• Sequence reviews for stations, viaducts, tunnels, trackwork, depots and railway systems.
• Engage technical specialists, designers, construction managers, safety teams, operations personnel, maintenance representatives, and client stakeholders.
• Organize workshop schedules, agendas, supporting information, and review logistics.
• Facilitate efficient discussion and clear decision-making during review sessions.
• Coordinate constructability matters spanning multiple packages, contracts, and delivery partners.
• Establish systems for recording comments, actions, issues, and decisions.
• Assign action owners and monitor agreed completion dates.
• Follow design and construction actions through to documented closure.
• Maintain a program-level constructability issues register.
• Escalate high-risk, recurring, or cross-cutting concerns through approved governance channels.
• Record technical trade-offs and confirm they receive the necessary approvals.
• Communicate approved decisions to relevant disciplines and delivery teams.
• Integrate constructability milestones into the master schedule.
• Monitor performance against review dates, resolution targets, and design deadlines.
• Identify process slippage and coordinate recovery plans or resequencing.
• Maintain a risk register covering late reviews, incomplete participation, poor inputs, and unresolved actions.
• Develop mitigation measures and track their effectiveness.
• Measure review completion, action closeout, design impact, and reduction in rework.
• Prepare dashboards, status reports, and recommendations for leadership.
• Serve as the senior contact for the client on constructability-process matters.
• Lead governance meetings and present risks, decisions, and performance trends.
• Align constructability reviews with design assurance, safety-in-design, value engineering, and change control.
• Coordinate external interfaces involving utilities, authorities, and adjacent projects.
• Oversee common data environments, issue-tracking platforms, and collaboration tools.
• Work with BIM and digital teams to incorporate models into structured reviews.
• Support appropriate use of 4D and 5D methods for sequence and cost evaluation.
• Capture lessons learned and improve workflows, templates, checklists, and governance controls.
• Develop organizational playbooks, guidance, and training material for constructability management.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of experience on major infrastructure or construction projects.
• At least ten years of experience within railway, metro, light rail, or transit developments.
• Significant background in process-focused project management, design management, review coordination, or program governance.
• Familiarity with station, track, structure, tunnel, system, and operational interfaces.
• Experience supporting large multidisciplinary and multicontract mega projects.
• Proven ability to develop and enforce structured workflows.
• Strong project-management knowledge covering scheduling, risks, stakeholders, and reporting.
• Ability to lead senior-level meetings and present confidently to client leadership.
• Strong organizational capability across several concurrent constructability streams.
• Detailed approach to documentation, traceability, approvals, and procedural compliance.
• Ability to secure cooperation from design, construction, operations, and client teams.
• Proficiency with project scheduling, digital collaboration, reporting, and issue-management tools.
• PMP, PRINCE2, chartered status, or an equivalent professional qualification is highly desirable.

Skills Set

• Constructability process management
• Rail-program governance
• Constructability management plans
• Review-gate development
• Multicontract coordination
• Station constructability
• Tunnel and viaduct interfaces
• Trackwork coordination
• Depot and rail-systems reviews
• Design-maturity assessment
• Constructability workshops
• Action and decision tracking
• Issue-register management
• Master-schedule integration
• Process-risk management
• Recovery and resequencing
• Performance metrics
• Safety-in-design alignment
• Value engineering coordination
• Change-control integration
• Common data environments
• BIM coordination
• 4D planning
• 5D coordination
• Issue-tracking systems
• Microsoft Project
• Primavera
• Management dashboards
• Client presentations
• Lessons-learned management

Why Join Us

This position offers program-wide influence over how complex rail assets move from design into practical construction. The manager will shape governance, review timing, stakeholder participation, digital coordination, and the resolution of issues spanning multiple contracts. The role provides a strong pathway toward constructability-director, program-governance, and rail-delivery leadership within Saudi Arabia's expanding Transportation-Trucking-Railroad market.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, design-management, construction, and program-governance services for complex rail and transportation developments. Its multidisciplinary teams help clients convert coordinated designs into safe, practical, and efficient delivery plans.